[Python-Dev] Is static typing still optional? (original) (raw)

Eric V. Smith eric at trueblade.com
Wed Dec 20 20:29:41 EST 2017

On 12/20/2017 8:13 PM, Eric V. Smith wrote:

There is definitely a passive bias towards using types with dataclasses in that the Eric (the author) doesn't appear to want an example without them in the pep/docs. I'm not sure what such an example would look like. Do you mean without annotations? Or do you mean without specifying the "correct" type, like: @dataclass class C: x: int = 'hello world' ? Or something else? Can you provide an example of what you'd like to see?

Re-reading my post you referenced, is it just an example using typing.Any? I'm okay with that in the docs, I just didn't want to focus on it in the PEP. I want the PEP to only have the one reference to typing, for typing.ClassVar. I figure the people reading the PEP can extrapolate to all of the possible uses for annotations that they don't need to see a typing.Any example.

Eric.

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